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demand schedules in a sequence of double auctions. A stationary linear equilibrium and its efficiency properties are … characterized explicitly in closed form. Slow trading (few double auctions per unit of time) serves as a commitment device that …
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The empirical literature on Affirmative Action (AA) in college admissions tends to ignore the effects admissions policies have on incentives of students to invest developing pre-college human capital. We explore the incentive effects of AA using a field experiment that creates a microcosm of the...
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, replacing more traditional ascending or clock auctions. We describe some surprising properties of the auction, including a wide …
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electricity is traded through high-frequency auctions for highly inelastic demand, firms have weak incentives to adjust markups …
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We introduce a simple and robust approach to answering two key questions in empirical auction analysis: discriminating between models of entry and quantifying the revenue gains from improving auction design. The approach builds on Bulow and Klemperer (1996), connecting their theoretical results...
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-auto auctions, an $80 billion industry where buyers and sellers participate in alternating-offer bargaining when the auction price …
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Aggregate art price patterns mask a lot of underlying variation--both in the time series and in the cross- section. We argue that, to increase our understanding of the market for aesthetics, it is helpful to take a micro perspective on the formation of art prices, and acknowledge that each...
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model includes a different approach to the problem of multiple equilibria in multi-unit auctions: I non …
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Bidders' risk attitudes have key implications for choices of revenue-maximizing auction formats. In ascending auctions … transaction prices and participation decisions in ascending auctions with entry costs. Nonparametric tests are proposed for two … of risk attitudes in a more general model of ascending auctions with selective entry, where bidders receive entry …
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The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of the enormous amount of freely available field …-now options) in online auctions, as well as some of the literature dealing with online-auction design (including stopping rules …
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